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- Universal Music 100% Guarentee Album Wave
- Pet Shop Boys switch labels for new 'Electric' album
- Depeche Mode, 'pessimists at heart', never imagined longevity
| Universal Music 100% Guarentee Album Wave Posted: 14 Mar 2013 09:42 PM PDT Would you like a chance to be part of the 100% Guarentee Album Wave conducted by Universal Music Malaysia? Aimed to introduced the highly anticipated band Imagine Dragons (discovered by The Killers frontman Brandon Flowers), Universal Music is offering a great deal for all. All you need to do is purchase Imagine Dragons' album, 'Night Vision' at participating CD stores, play it and if you are not satisfied with it, you will be offered a chance to exchange the album to either a same or lower valued album from any of the Universal Music label titles within seven days of purchase with the original receipts. So in a nutshell, go to participating CD stores, buy the Night Vision album and take it home. Listen to it and if you aren't satisfied with it, bring it back to these participating stores and get a replacement album of a same or lower price. This promotion ends on 1 April 2013. Imagine Dragons is quickly achieving fame with its platinum-selling single It's Time. The song reached the top five in the Billboard Alternative and Billboard Rock charts upon release. The single has also been covered by Glee and was featured in NBC's Gossip Girls and Basketball Wives. For more information, log on to: www.universalmusic.com.my |
| Pet Shop Boys switch labels for new 'Electric' album Posted: 14 Mar 2013 09:20 PM PDT LONDON (Reuters) - Pet Shop Boys have left the record label Parlophone after 28 years and will release their new studio album Electric through independent music publisher Kobalt in June, the British duo said on Thursday. The chart-toppers, whose 1980s hits include West End Girls and It's A Sin, said further details of their 12th studio album would be released soon. The move by the duo, who have sold 50 million records worldwide since getting together 32 years ago, comes a month after it was announced that Parlophone was being sold to Warner Music. Parlophone was previously one of EMI's most prized assets but Vivendi's Universal Music Group agreed last year to sell the label to satisfy European regulators over its US$1.9 billion purchase of EMI's recorded music business. The Pet Shop Boys said when they signed with Parlophone, whose artists also include Coldplay, they had no idea how long or how successful the relationship would be. "However it is also exciting now to commence a new phase working with a new team in a new business structure and we look forward to a creative and equally fulfilling relationship with Kobalt," bandmates Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe (pictured above) said in a statement on their website. Kobalt is a fast-growing independent music publisher set up in 2000 by Swedish businessman Willard Ahdritz who established a new publishing model to release and market records while giving the musicians greater control and ownership of their work. The label's first international album release, Push The Sky Away by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, debuted this year at No. 1 in seven countries and in the top four in 13 other countries. |
| Depeche Mode, 'pessimists at heart', never imagined longevity Posted: 14 Mar 2013 09:11 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Depeche Mode has come a long way since its 1980s debut as part of Britain's New Wave scene, and as it prepares to tour behind its 13th album, no one appears more surprised at the group's longevity than the band members themselves. The British synthpop pioneers - singer Dave Gahan, guitarist-keyboardist Martin Gore and keyboardist Andy Fletcher - are marking their fourth decade in the music industry with the release of Delta Machine on 26 March. "We've always been pessimists at heart, so we never think further ahead than whatever's coming next," Gore, 51, told Reuters at the South by Southwest Music Conference this week. The band has sold more than 100 million records worldwide since its 1981 debut album Speak & Spell, thanks to hits along the way like 1984's People Are People and 1989's Personal Jesus. Depeche Mode's textured sound and moody lyrics made it one of the biggest bands to emerge from the British New Wave in the early 1980s, alongside groups such as The Boomtown Rats. The title Delta Machine reflects the musicians' contradictory sounds - they're influenced by the Delta blues, but they also use technology like computers and synthesizers. "We feel like our music is a blend of organic and inorganic," Gore said. NEW TOUR, NEW APPROACH The band's appearance at the SXSW conference is unusual, as was its performance on The Late Show With David Letterman this week. Depeche Mode has typically gone straight from rehearsal to tour without leaving time to properly promote a new album, Gore said. "You'd think that we would have done that at some point in this career, but we haven't," he said, referring to promoting albums prior to release. Depeche Mode will embark on its 17th tour in Tel Aviv on 7 May, with the North American leg scheduled to begin in Detroit on August 22. Gore, having spent a significant part of the last three decades on the road and given up drinking seven years ago, said touring these days is different. "The last tour I really enjoyed because it was the first one that I'd really been lucid enough to take in everything and enjoy the concerts and then enjoy the cities the next day," he said. "So I'm really looking forward to this one." Life has also improved for Gahan, 50, a former heroin addict who attempted suicide in 1995, almost died after an overdose in 1996 and got sober about two years later. "My life has just progressively got better," Gahan told an audience at conference. "I feel like I participate in it in a very different way." Asked how he manages to remain so active on stage, Gahan replied that when he gets up in front of people who have bought tickets, he does his best to entertain them. There's nothing worse, he said, than performers on stage staring at their shoes while wearing "camping clothes." "This is rock and roll," Gahan said. |
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